Milk & Honey

Milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
Reviewed by Omma
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I've never been a fan of poetry (I'm blaming anthology from school days) so I didn't have high hopes for this read. I suppose it's a marmite type of book, you'll either love it or thinks it's overhyped nonsense. I am (surprising myself the most here) actually part of the former.

It's split into four parts: The hurting, the loving, the breaking and the healing. It felt more like of a story rather than a collection of poems. It flowed really well and did touch on topics such as heartbreak, self love, sexual abuse but you finish the book feeling quite optimistic despite some dark themes. Unlike Anthology, the meaning within the poems are pretty obvious and doesn't require deep analysis. Maybe that's why it's received some criticism online.

There are a few poems that were repetitive ('I was a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut' and 'I was music but you had your ears cut off') and some of her work seemed a little generic and twitter angsty but overall I did really like it. I liked that there was some poems I could relate to and the ones that I couldn't, I still appreciated. Although a lot of the advice and encouragement didn't apply to me, I immediately thought of someone who could really benefit from reading this and hopefully take on some of the advice. In a way I feel like it's a self-help book for The YA crowd.